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News, human stories, history and culture concerning Palestine.
Features and commissioning
Desk-researched features on Palestinian land, heritage and learning, each built from cited public sources — plus contributor guidelines and the pathway for proposing reported and first-person work.
Land & livelihoods · Desk-researched feature
Every autumn, olive picking in the West Bank brings together household income, family labour and a cultural calendar. UN records also document how access to groves shapes whether a harvest happens at all.
Heritage · Desk-researched feature
Palestinian embroidery is learned at home and worn on everyday and ceremonial dress. Museums and UNESCO describe it as a record of place, occasion and generation — an archive kept in thread.
Education · Desk-researched feature
For three-quarters of a century, a UN agency has run one of the region's largest school systems for Palestine refugee children. Its own published figures show how that system was built — and what has happened to it in Gaza.
These are original explanatory features written by the editorial desk from published records. They are not field reporting: no interviews were conducted and no one is quoted. Commissioned reporting will be labelled as such when it exists.
Curated Humanity has not yet published commissioned field reporting. When it does, the work will be sourced, edited and labelled. This is what the desk is seeking and how proposals are handled.
Reported work grounded in how people live, study, work, care, cook, create and maintain community.
Oral history, family archives and intergenerational accounts, published only with informed permission.
Work attentive to a named place—its people, ecology, built environment and changing conditions.
Palestinian life beyond Palestine, without treating identity as a single experience or reducing it to politics alone.
Consent
The intended use, risks, attribution and right to withdraw before publication must be understood by contributors.
Verification
Names, dates, locations, documents and quoted words require a traceable source. Uncertainty stays visible.
Safety
Identities may be withheld for a stated safety reason. Curated Humanity will never attempt to expose a protected identity.
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Send a short proposal: what happened or what you want to explain, where, who is involved, your relationship to the story and why now. Do not send finished drafts containing sensitive details.
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List the documents, recordings, data or publications that support each factual claim. Unsupported claims are cut or attributed, never smoothed over.
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Anyone named, quoted or photographed must understand where the work will appear and may withdraw before publication. Children require guardian consent.
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Send only images you made or have written permission to license. Include the photographer's name, date and place. Generated images are never published as documentary photographs.
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Work is published as reporting, first person, analysis or opinion. The label is agreed before editing and shown to readers.
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Edits are shared with the contributor before publication. Published errors are corrected openly through the corrections process.
The contact form is delivered by ordinary email. It is not end-to-end encrypted and does not provide anonymity. If your safety depends on confidentiality, do not send identifying details in a first message.